If i got Intel Optane wouldnt a SSD be pointless?

[Shadow27]

If i got Intel Optane wouldnt a SSD be pointless?

 

[USAFRet]

If i got Intel Optane wouldnt a SSD be pointless?

No. It is simply a small cache for the HDD. Just like SSD's were 6-7 years ago. This is just a slightly faster cache.

And if you have an SSD, Optane is pointless.

And actually, Optane is pretty pointless outside of a data center.
In a few years, when they get to sizes that people can actually use, for a rational price...then Optane may be a viable solution.

 

[Supahos]

Unless you somehow plan to stay under 32gb total storage then no you'll need something else too. Optane makes zero sense outside of the Enterprise environment where .2 seconds a few trillion times might actually pay it back you them.

Heck if an optane is big enough for ya just get 64gb memory and run a ram disk